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OMG this could be applied in so many places!!!
Next, Mitzi will kludge a canopener that doesn’t require thumbs. As soon as he manages to unroll the duct-tape.
its called an electric can opener, you just press the button.
Hey, we’re talking about a male cat named “Mitzi” here. Can openers are the least of his troubles.
I know this is a joke, but the best way to a scent-free litter box is:
1) switch to wood pellet-based cat litter. It’s significantly cheaper than clay-based cat litter, but more importantly, no smell!
Or as this poster states: “Compared to clay litter: better odor control, less maintenance, much cheaper, much lighter, not dusty or messy, non-tracking, flushable, and much better for the environment. Am I forgetting anything?”
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080305073908AAkrLNE
Lmao…this is thereitsfixed.com not yahoo answers but thanks anyways.
The smug feeling that you are the first to invent a complex solution to a simple problem?
It’s actually not really a joke, there’s a website somewhere that has all the stuff you need for this and if you live close enough will come install it for you.
But the best way to keep a scent-free litterbox is to clean it regularly. For each cat you have, you have to clean it once per day. So if you have two cats, you clean it twice per day. Three cats, three times.
You can’t have a scent-free litterbox because there’s poop and pee in it, no matter what sort of litter you use or how well you ventilate it. Poop and pee is not scent-free. So you hook up this ventilation thing thinking you are really clever but it’s just really lazy, and the cats can still smell it anyway.
LOL! I’ve thought about doing the same thing.
Om thats an awesome idea! im gonna do that!!! my bathroom stinks all the time cuz im to lazy to change the filters
I’ve completely eliminated the need for litter boxes by training my cats to relieve themselves over the toilet. I’ve accomplished this with a form of feline mind control via the use of constant subliminal messages.
Also, I’m hoping that through further training, and an occasional jolt from a low voltage tazer I’ll soon have them closing the toilet seat after they’re done.
most of us guys arn’t even trained to do that..
It’s as easy to put it down before use as it is too put up before use
True, but which would you rather have?
1) You forget to lift up the seat, resulting in getting yelled at to clean the seat.
2) Leaving the seat up, resulting in getting punched in the nuts when your gal sits down on cold porcelain, then butt dunking into toilet water.
3) Add to #2 above, getting a cold, wet faceful to remind you to put the seat down.
Training cats to use a toilet is totally doable. It just takes a bit more patience then most people have. And you have to leave the bathroom door open and the toilet seat in the correct position (seat down, lid up)
Training them to flush on the other hand…. is a waste of water. (assuming you can actually do it) Much better to simply flush after the cat.
You should never flush kitty poo. It is not the same as human poop and has toxins that get into the water and poison marine life like seals. That’s why they tell you not to flush on all the kitty litter bags.
The cat looks insulted.
We put a vent fan in the ceiling, above the cat box. Then surrounded the box with a curtain. It’s in a back section of a converted garage, and though you have to clean and oil the fan once a year, there is no more cat smell. What works… Works.
Yeah they could put a inline fan in this and this would be perfect.
They did. What do you think happened to the cat’s tail?
I heard of someone who did this, only he went the extra mile and installed an infrared sensor to trigger a 10-minute run of the fan.
I wonder if this is a commercially viable product…someone can do it, I just know it.
Drawing the air through two layers of carbon filter- available in sheet form at Lowe’s or Home depot- does the same thing, without losing hot or cold air to the outside.
True, but no where near as fun as making your neighbours think that your dryer is in really bad condition.
And here I thought this was a picture of a cat who was upset over the discovery of it’s cleverly disguised night-time escape tube.
I can haz kleen litturbox?
I am trying to appreciate the ingenuity here. Instead, all I can think about are those windy, wintry days where the heating element next to the cat litter warms the odors up and the wind channeled into the vent helps disseminate the smells throughout the home. What was supposed to be a “purr”fect solution becomes a real “cat”astrophe.
A real fixer would know to use a one-way flap, such as or similar to the ones used in bathroom ceilings. They only open when the fan is blowing outward. I learned this after the fan in mine died and I couldn’t find a same-size replacement. Instead of having to hack the ceiling and re-boxing the vent system between studs during the middle of winter, I took out the old fan and kludged in a 110v, 120mm fan with very high output that originally was meant to be used in a server rack (like early 90s computer servers). It still works great, I didn’t have to crawl up into the attic during the winter, no re-boxing, and best of all, I already had the fan from when 110v was the only one that could be found in 120mm.
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If I were to do something like pictured above, I’d utilise the same type of one-way flap, but operated via radio control servo (parts left over from my RC days – I’m a packrat) and a 12v DC fan (wired via wall wart, then a step-down transformer to operate the servo). Damn. Now I want to get a cat just so I can do that.
How much you want to bet the other end is connected to a mouse hole with a little sign above it that says “Welcome to the Tunnel of Cheese”?
Okay, maybe the sign was a stretch.
Gouda for you about the rodent raceway idea.
OK, that one was cheesy, Jack. Even for you. (Or do I mean, “Even fondue?” Huh.)
Unless, of course, you are a poor Italian immigrant plumber named Luigi or something, and you are writing phonetically to match your manner of speech. In that case, where ARE my manners?
Curse you – global warming!
Now even the litterbox needs its own aircondition.
@nativefloridian:
These have been available for years, you just have to do the necessary ductwork if you want an external exhaust (they have activated charcoal filters, too) and, of course, cough up (along with the hairballs) a few hundred bucks. Most likely your trailer park doesn’t have a sufficiently prestigious zipcode, so you don’t get those upmarket Lillian Hellman-type mail order catalogues-I know that’s my problem.
Sorry about all the frou-frou blow-ins. Inexcusable, really. So it’s your contention that Lillian Vernon did not author The Little Foxes? Well, that certainly explains a lot… but about my countless minions, yes, they do despise me, just one of the bitter pills one must swallow with the otherwise sweet nectar of life. I do apologise for the zipcode slur, my problem, as I mentioned, as well. One’s islands are not afforded the luxury of post codes, ergo no spammail, no Lillian of any kind. I do hope nativefloridian can find it in his heart to forgive. Mea culpa.
Smelly Cat is watching you ventilate.
The only way cat box smell goes away is if you keep it clean. We have two cats and use clumping litter. It’s much easier.
This cat trap is perfect! We’ll lure them in and then vacuum them into the holding cell!
This is the second post in a row that I’ve done, too. My catbox used a motion sensor from an outdoor light to trigger the fan.
Milk jug handguards for a motorcycle were actually pretty common for late season dirt bike riding where I used to live.
I go one better: not have a cat in the first place.
Smelly Cat, Smeeellly Cat, What are they feeding you?
Daily cleaning works wonders. Using a closed litter box typically means you don’t clean it often. Tidy cat for small spaces is great for odor control. I only have one cat but never smell his litter box at all.
Buying a machine (like a littermaid) to clean several times a day for you works even better, especially combined with a filtered forced draft.
Who wants to scrape cat poop every day when you can have a $100 gadget reduce it to weekly cleanings?
Yea, except most cats are scared of the motor, so you end up with a hundred dollar piece of crap. Also, more than three cats in the house = to many visits for the thing to ever actually run.
cooling for the cats kevlar vest? must be a tough neighborhood.
Gee, nature really DOES abhor a vacuum!
I have two concrete mixing tubs I bought at Home Depot for $8 each. They hold 40LBS of litter each.
I put them both in my basement, all the way back as far from the stairs as possible and I installed a Cat-Door on the basement door.
When the stench is so bad that it reaches the first floor of my house then i clean the boxes!
nice and simple
maybe I should put an exhaust fan in the basement so that the litter will last another week or two
Lasareath
argh — I do not want to see how your human bathroom looks. Do you think I appreciate a dirty bathroom any better than you do? After all I keep my fur and butt fastidiously clean – do you?
Gross… that stench sinks into your house… ruining the resale value… also that’s just… gross. :/
Lolcat caption: Whut ur problem? It work.
I used a bathroom vent fan kit to add a vent fan to my kitties’ bathroom. They don’t seem bothered by it in the least, even if it does look very jerry-rigged.
I did that very thing when we had three cats. I just bought a four inch 24 volt dc fan. bought a dryer vent for the wall and some flexable hose. It was cheap, cheap to run and worked like a champ. In just a few days the litter box in the basement smell was a thing of the past. With the flex hose it was easy to remove the lid and clean the box.
Yeah, I’ve done this
how about you just let your cat outside to do its’ business? O_o
Damn. I did this with cardboard. I was going to submit it when the weather warmed up and I re-installed it (I never got a picture of it this past summer). Oh well.
Anyway, yeah, it works and the cat actually doesn’t mind.
that contraption actually directs the smell next door, to that jerk Peterson’s house.
Sorry – but this is just a lazy way to endanger your cat. If you are not cleaning the box often enough that it does not smell, you are setting them up for bladder infections which are especially dangerous for male cats. I use a scoopable brand that is made from wheat hulls, so it is not dangerous to the cats (read up on the chemicals in most scoopable litters) and scoop it daily. There are other natural options out there as well. The box should also be washed completely and air dried when you change the litter out entirely. Hot soapy water and a rinse with white vinegar and water and air dry should help kill any bacteria. No need for pine oil cleaners (dangerous to cats) or other chemicals harmful to the environment. ; )
I don’t know about you, but my cat certainly has ways of letting me know when it’s time to change the litter box.
Nice! I’ll 1-up it though. Lets see how fast my triple box vent system gets posted. Will submit tonight.
I did this, but my litter box is in a bathroom closet, so I actually installed a vent fan into the wall in the side of the closet and ran it outside. Works great!
The sweetest thing about that is it doubles as a cat door.
LOL I did that when the litter box was in the basement.Replaced a window pane with plexi and used a dryer hose and a bathroom fan. Ran for around 10 years before needing replacement. I did get nervous though because at the time the cops were telling everyone to report any ammonia smells because of Meth labs and you could smell the cat pee from the street! Helped keep the basement dry too.
The Internet: A series of tubes filled with cats and poop.